OIST alumni profiles
LinkedIn My name is Behrad Ahmadpour, and I am a last year BSc. Student in Electrical Engineering, at the Sharif University of Technology. I'm currently working as Research Assistant with Prof. David Elkouss on Quantum Networks and Quantum Information at OIST university. I'm interested in Provable Cryptography, Information Security, and Quantum Networks. In my free time, I like to play Cybersecurity themed games like CTF (Capture the Flag) to improve my knowledge of related topics. Furthermore, I also enjoy playing soccer and basketball on the weekends, as well as rowing in the summer.
Samuel Begumya has a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics from Makerere University Uganda, and a Master of science in Physics from Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University India. He also did research internship at OIST where he worked on Femtosecond laser writing on nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond project.
He joined NetQ Unit as a rotation student focusing on Quantum Key Distribution and is actively looking forward to improving his research skills. In his free time, he likes to play football, Volleyball and Basketball. He also like making new friends and exploring the island.
My name is Javier Pagan, I'm Spanish and 22 years old. I recently graduated from a Masters in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics at the University of Manchester and I have a particular interest for Fundamental and Information Theory. I have participated in 2 particle physics experiments: one by the Joint Institute for Nuclear research, where we used relativistic hydrodynamics to measure the QCD phase transition temperature from Heavy Ion Collisions data; and another at CERN, where we developed different machine learning techniques to study the top-photon coupling in proton-proton collisions. On top of that, in my last year of high school I used Shor's algorithm and an optical set up to factorise number 15 in polynomial time; and developed a deep neural network for time series analysis during my Masters. Physics aside, I enjoy playing the guitar, card magic, scuba diving and above all, travelling.
I received a bachelor degree in Chemistry at National Taiwan University. My research interest lies in the application of near-term quantum computers (especially on chemistry!). After the summer internship at the Institute of Information Science, Academic Sinica, I also learned some basics of theoretical computer science, and my interest with quantum information science was then developed.
I joined NetQ Unit as a rotation student focusing on the theory of entanglement distillation. In my free time, I like reading, movies, animation, and Go (recently!).